The Max Planck Society and Right to Research Coalition are organizing a satellite conference to the Berlin 11 Open Access Conference, specifically for students and early stage researchers. The meeting will be held on November 18th in Berlin.
Information and registration: http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/berlin11.shtml
Nearly 600 young scientists from around the world have gotten the unique chance to participate in the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, taking place from 30 June – 5 July 2013. They are meeting 35 Nobel Laureates in lectures, discussion sessions and master classes. The scientific programme, dedicated to the Nobel Prize discipline of chemistry, include questions like “How does surface science contribute so solve global energy and environmental issues?”.
Find further information on the 2013 Lindau Meeting including videos and mini lectures at the Mediatheque:
Read blog posts and comments at the interactive forum of the Lindau Meetings.
Due to the annual MPG library meeting the library office is closed from Monday up to and including Wednesday (April 16-18). We ask for your understanding.
In Lindau am Bodensee kommen seit 1951 zu einer Tagung jährlich Nobelpreisträger und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus aller Welt zusammen, um Ideen auszutauschen und Kontakte zu knüpfen. 
Das umfangreiche Material der Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings an Audiomitschnitten, Videos und Fotos wird nun kontinuierlich zugänglich gemacht.
In der Mediatheque findet sich unter anderem dieser Vortrag von Werner Heisenberg: Fortschritte und Schwierigkeiten in der Quantentheorie der Elementarteilchen (Lindau, 2. Juli 1953)
The librarians from the Max Planck Institutes of the CPT section hold a meeting each year in autumn. This year the Fritz Haber Institute will host the meeting in the Richard Willstätter house from November 22nd-23th, 2011.
Program: http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/bib/herbsttagung/uebersicht.epl
Due to this conference the library office is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday (November 22nd-23th). We will already organise and prepare a lot of things on Monday, so that you will not catch us at the library office all day.